Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun

OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information.

The feature rollback follows reports of ChatGPT conversations being discoverable in search results, an option recently extended to ChatGPT users.

Dane Stuckey, CISO of OpenAI, announced the change in a social media post. He described it as a short-lived experiment to help people discover useful conversations.

"Ultimately we think this feature introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn't intend to, so we're removing the option," he said. "We're also working to remove indexed content from the relevant search engines. This change is rolling out to all users through tomorrow morning."

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